Hi, I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.

And I'm Sasha Ayyad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.

And this is Gender, a wider lens, a podcast dedicated to the shifting concepts around gender in our contemporary culture.

Through in-depth interviews, personal stories, and psychological exploration, we seek to open up the discourse around this hot button issue.

Join us as we look at gender from a wider lens.

Hi, Stella.

How's it going Sasha? How's life? Life is great. It's going well and we had

the writer and lovely podcast host and I mean she's kind of is like a renaissance woman with all the stuff she's doing.

Megan Dom on the show so there was a controversy about her name pronunciation.

I like Dom and she's been very kind of do as you wish with it so I'm going to say

Dom but you're going to say it the German way. Yeah I am going to say it, Megan Dowm.

Because I like languages and I quite like...

I like the origin of names.

I'm very into names as we'll hear in the in the episode and you know it was a

very interesting conversation we started to have around names which none of us

expected yeah it it I do think you know all these kids and they're changing their name and all that sort of thing.

I think it's something that's done lightly and also done very heavily with a lot of thought,

but actually it's a seismic thing to do to change your name I think it is and you if you're not careful you can one day almost look in the mirror and think who am I I've lost my name I look different I sound

different and I have a different name who is the person originally and so I

think it is very relevant to talk about names in the context of gender. I really do. I think it's a huge subject actually.

But the conversation I see Meganess, sorry, as a cultural commentator more than anything.

Yeah, she's, she's amazing and on her, she has two podcasts, the Unspeakable Podcast and then a special place in hell with Sarah

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